> I like the topic of the workshop, because I have struggled with the > problem of evaluating and comparing usability a lot in the past, and I > see that Antoine and Frédéric have similar problems with their > research. The only thing I hope is that this workshop is not on the > same day as
I was thinking that having a short paper on Pharo will definitely be of a good move. > DLS (where we'll be presenting the RoelTyper paper, that > got accepted after Frédéric improved the precision; watch out for this > new version in Squeak and Pharo one of the coming days). Congratulation! > Alex, are you going to OOPSLA ? Unfortunately not. I won't attend ESUG as well. sic... Next year my budget will be much larger. Alexandre > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Alexandre > Bergel<[email protected]> wrote: >> I like the idea of this workshop. If someone is going to OOPSLA >> this year, >> this may be interesting. >> If someone plan to go there, let me know. >> >> Cheers, >> Alexandre >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Shane Markstrum <[email protected]> >>> Date: 20 July 2009 16:40:22 GMT-04:00 >>> To: [email protected], [email protected], >>> [email protected], [email protected], >>> [email protected] >>> Subject: [SEWORLD] Call for Papers: Evaluation and Usability of >>> Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) 2009 >>> >>> Call for Papers >>> >>> PLATEAU 2009 >>> >>> First Workshop on >>> Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools >>> (PLATEAU) >>> in conjunction with Onward!/OOPSLA 2009 >>> October 25-29, 2009 (Orlando, FL) >>> >>> http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome >>> >>> SUBMISSION SITE >>> >>> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau09 >>> >>> IMPORTANT DATES >>> >>> Submission August 31 >>> Notification Mid-September (before close of early registration for >>> OOPSLA/Onward!) >>> Final version TBA >>> Workshop TBA, one-half or one-full day between October 25 >>> and 29 >>> >>> SCOPE >>> >>> Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop >>> software >>> effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software >>> depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they >>> develop >>> with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and >>> techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language >>> tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a >>> large >>> space, including making programs easier to read, write, and >>> maintain; >>> allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; >>> and >>> restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. >>> >>> We plan to gather the intersection of researchers in the programming >>> language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction >>> communities >>> to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and >>> usability of programming languages and tools. We are also interested >>> in the input of other members of the programming research community >>> working on related areas, such as refactoring, design patterns, >>> program analysis, program comprehension, software visualization, >>> end-user programming, and other programming language paradigms. Some >>> particular areas of interest are: >>> >>> - empirical studies of programming languages >>> - methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation >>> - software design metrics and their relations to the underlying >>> language >>> - user studies of language features and software engineering tools >>> - visual techniques for understanding programming languages >>> - critical comparisons of programming paradigms, such as >>> object-oriented vs. functional >>> - tools to support evaluating programming languages >>> >>> SUBMISSIONS >>> >>> Participants are invited to submit a position paper describing their >>> on going work. We will accept papers (from 4 to 6 pages) that >>> describe >>> work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes and >>> goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences >>> gained, >>> question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or >>> propose >>> speculative new approaches. Longer submissions will be considered, >>> but >>> all submissions must be fewer than 10 pages. >>> >>> Submissions and final papers should be formatted using the ACM >>> SIGPLAN >>> 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at >>> http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm; this site >>> also >>> contains links to useful information on how to write effective >>> submissions. >>> >>> Accepted submissions will be made available through this website and >>> workshop participants are encouraged to have read the position >>> papers >>> before attending the workshop. Participants are also asked to >>> prepare >>> a presentation to support their position paper. >>> >>> ORGANIZERS (and members of the Committee) >>> >>> Craig Anslow - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand >>> Shane Markstrum - Bucknell University, USA >>> Emerson Murphy-Hill - University of British Columbia, Canada >>> >>> PROGRAM COMMITTEE >>> >>> Andrew Black - Portland State University, USA >>> Larry Constantine - University of Madeira, Portugal >>> Jeff Foster - University of Maryland, College Park, USA >>> Robert Fuhrer - IBM Research, USA >>> Donna Malayeri - EPFL, Switzerland/Carnegie Mellon University, USA >>> Stuart Marshall - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand >>> Todd Millstein - University of California, Los Angeles, USA >>> James Noble - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand >>> Ewan Tempero - University of Auckland, New Zealand >>> >>> For more information, please see the workshop website: >>> >>> http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to >>> mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more >>> information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of >>> messages posted to the list. >>> ============================================================ >>> >>> >> >> -- >> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: >> Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu >> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
